A Cinema Of Hopelessness

Author : Kendall R. Phillips
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030741365

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A Cinema of Hopelessness by Kendall R. Phillips Pdf

This book explores the circulation of anger and hostility in contemporary American culture with particular attention to the fantasy of refusal, a dream of rejecting all the structures of the contemporary political and economic system. Framing the question of public sentiment through the lens of rhetorical studies, this book traces the circulation of symbols that craft public feelings in contemporary popular cinema. Analyzing popular twenty-first century films as invitations to a particular way of feeling, the book delves into the way popular sentiments are circulated and intensified. The book examines dystopian films (The Purge, The Cabin in the Woods), science fiction (Snowpiercer), and superhero narratives (the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Joker). Across these varied films, an affective economy that emphasizes grief, betrayal, refusal, and an underlying rage at the seeming hopelessness of contemporary culture is uncovered. These examinations are framed in terms of ongoing political protests ranging from Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, and the 6th January 2021 invasion of the US Capitol Building.

Author : Heidi Rice
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781460330630

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Movie Bliss: A Hopeless Romantic Seeks Movies to Love by Heidi Rice Pdf

The Romance Lover's Guide to Movie Must-Sees If you adore Sleepless in Seattle and Pride and Prejudice and The Avengers, then you want a movie guide aimed at women like you. Women who enjoy romances and more! You like both a good kiss and a good knockout and refuse to be categorized—but you wish someone like you would recommend movies. Which brings Harlequin author and professional movie critic Heidi Rice to the rescue. Whether it's nonstop action with a little heart 'n' soul, sweetly adorable cartoons, a classic black-and-white screwball comedy or that under-the-radar flick that you never knew you were missing, Heidi Rice will lead you through her must-sees and why you will also enjoy them. From Ryan Gosling's six-pack to that iconic orgasm sandwich delivered by Meg Ryan, right up to the double whammy of hotties in Prisoners (Gyllenhaal and Jackman)—there's a little something for everyone. And a little something for that teenager inside you who's ready to watch "nekkid" man-candy and spend two hours falling in love all over again….

Author : Noelia Gregorio-Fernández
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031538360

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Culture Wars and Horror Movies by Noelia Gregorio-Fernández Pdf

Author : Salman Akhtar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429914577

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Hopelessness by Salman Akhtar Pdf

Hope is the most reliable sustainer of life. It offers the promise of something good in the future, contributes to resilience, and keeps one going. However, there are circumstances when hope dries up. This book seeks to map out such dark terrain of hopelessness. While it allows for the fact that a modicum of hopelessness might help in reducing infantile omnipotence and curtailing fixation on unrealistic goals, its focus is upon severe and clinically significant shades of hopelessness. The book opens with a broad overview of the nature, developmental origins, and technical implications of hope and hopelessness, and closes with a thoughtful summary, synthesis, and critique of the intervening essays; this summary forges both theoretically and technically significant links between the experiences of helplessness and hopelessness. Sandwiched between these opening and closing commentaries are nine essays which address the ontogenetic trajectory, phenomenological variations, cultural and literary portrayals, and clinical ramifications of sustained hopelessness.

Author : Lee Broughton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501387579

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Reappraising Cult Horror Films by Lee Broughton Pdf

Identifies key – and in some cases previously overlooked – cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them by approaching and interrogating them in new ways. New productions in the horror genre occupy a prominent space within the cinematic landscape of the 21st century, but the genre's back catalogue of older films refuses to be consigned to the motion picture graveyard just yet. Interest in older horror films remains high, and an ever-increasing number of these films have enjoyed an afterlife as cult movies thanks to regular film festival screenings, television broadcasts and home video releases. Similarly, academic interest in the horror genre has remained high. The frameworks applied by contributors to the collection include genre studies, narrative theory, socio-political readings, aspects of cultural studies, gendered readings, archival research, fan culture work, interviews with filmmakers, aspects of film historiography, spatial theory and cult film theory. Covering a corpus of films that ranges from recognised cult horror classics such as The Wicker Man, The Shining and Candyman to more obscure films like Daughters of Darkness, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Shivers, Howling III: The Marsupials and Inside, Broughton has curated an international selection of case studies that show the diverse nature of the cult horror subgenre. Be they star-laden, stylish, violent, bizarre or simply little heard-of obscurities, this book offers a multitude of new critical insights into a truly eclectic selection of cult horror films.

Author : Susanne Kord
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800855205

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The Cabin in the Woods by Susanne Kord Pdf

The Cabin in the Woods (2012), directed by Drew Goddard and co-authored by Goddard and Joss Whedon of Buffy-fame, was famously described by co-author Whedon as his ‘loving hate letter’ to horror. Interviews with Whedon reveal that his struggles with modern cinematic horror are not merely emotional, but intensely philosophical. This book is the first to read Cabin as a philosophical metatext that asks what horror offers audiences and why audiences accept. Like any good philosophy, the film offers no answers but raises questions: what ‘choices’ are possible in a pre-determined universe? How do we, the audience, see the victims of violence, and with what ethical consequences? And finally, the most fraught question of all: why do we keep looking?

Author : Kelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780197677865

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Caught on Tape by Kelly Pdf

In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors performed by both ordinary and high-profile people. From former President Donald J. Trump's lewd banter on the infamous Access Hollywood video and leaked audio of celebrity racist tirades to outburst of violent hate speech posted daily to YouTube, contemporary media culture is awash in obscene performances of transgressive white masculinity. Such exposés are screened and viewed under the assumption that revealing secret prejudices will necessarily realize the promises of democracy and bring about a postracial and postfeminist future. This book addresses why the culture of public revelations has failed to hold the perpetrators accountable. Caught on Tape illustrates how public revelations constitute a symbolic and imaginary world for the public that is preoccupied with the obscene enjoyment of transgressive white masculinity: a compulsively repetitive experience of ecstatic and excessive pleasure-in-pain that arises from encounters with that which disturbs, traumatizes, and interrupts illusory notions of our coherent selves and reality. Caught on Tape argues that addressing race and gender inequality with the promise of scandalous hot mics and obscene private videos transforms antiracism and gender justice into disempowering forms of spectatorship that ultimately conceal the structural nature of whiteness, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The central argument of this book is that the spectators are the ones really caught on tape.

Author : Kendall R. Phillips
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814349052

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Kolchak: The Night Stalker by Kendall R. Phillips Pdf

Revisiting a televised narrative that focused not on the monster, but on the monster hunter.

Author : Robinson Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765102206

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Castration Desire by Robinson Murphy Pdf

Theorizes an alternative form of masculinity in global literature that is less egocentric and more sustainable, both in terms of gendered and environmental power dynamics. Contemporary novelists and filmmakers like Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese-British), Emma Donoghue (Irish-Canadian), Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lankan-Canadian), Bong Joon-ho (South Korean) and J.M. Coetzee (South African-Australian) are emblematic of a transnational phenomenon that Robinson Murphy calls “castration desire.” That is, these artists present privileged characters who nonetheless pursue their own diminishment. In promulgating through their characters a less egocentric mode of thinking and acting, these artists offer a blueprint for engendering a more other-oriented global relationality. Murphy proposes that, in addition to being an ethical prerogative, castration desire's “less is more” model of relationality would make life livable where veritable suicide is our species' otherwise potential fate. “Castration desire” thus offers an antidote to rapacious extractivism, with the ambition of instilling a sustainable model for thinking and acting on an imminently eco-apocalyptic earth. In providing a fresh optic through which to read a diversity of text-types, Castration Desire helps define where literary criticism is now and where it is headed. Castration Desire additionally extends and develops a zeitgeist currently unfolding in critical theory. It brings Leo Bersani's concept “psychic utopia” together with Judith Butler's “radical egalitarianism,” but transports their shared critique of phallic individualization into the environmental humanities. In doing so, this book builds a new framework for how gender studies intersects with environmental studies.

Author : Lisa Ortiz,Denis O'Hara
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781848883345

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Phoenix Rising from Contemporary Global Society by Lisa Ortiz,Denis O'Hara Pdf

Hope is not only a rich and complex topic, but one which deserves a central place within our collective disciplinary and social dialogue. The papers collected in this volume take different approaches to hope: from philosophy and spirituality, via pedagogy and healing, the volume concludes with showcasing visual evocations of hope.

Author : Morris Dickstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393338768

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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein Pdf

A cultural history of the 1930s explores the anxiety, despair, and optimism of the period, exploring how the period culture provided a dynamic lift to the country's morale.

Author : Samantha Rendle
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781839973680

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Hopeless Aromantic by Samantha Rendle Pdf

If you've picked up this book, the chances are you have some doubts about your Happiness 101 assignment sheet. True love; candlelit dinners; 2.1 children; joint bank accounts - The One? It might make you want to a run a mile - or you might just have a few big questions. Aromanticism is defined as experiencing little to no romantic attraction to others. Sam Rendle, onetime aromantic asexual, sometime aroaceflux, and present-day label unspecified, knows a thing or two about the aro spectrum - and she has some answers for you. You'll explore what aromanticism is, how aromantic people form relationships, how to know if you're aromantic and deal with internalised shame and societal stigma. With a history of aromantic representation, guidance on queerplatonic relationships, and testimony from your worldwide aro family - this is the affirmatory aro companion to have in your back pocket.

Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1594201528

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Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris Pdf

Documents the cultural revolution behind the making of 1967's five Best Picture-nominated films, including Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, Doctor Doolittle, In the Heat of the Night, and Bonnie and Clyde, in an account that discusses how the movies reflected period beliefs about race, violence, and identity. 40,000 first printing.

Author : Jason Bailey
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781647004699

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Fun City Cinema by Jason Bailey Pdf

A visual history of 100 years of filmmaking in New York City, featuring exclusive interviews with NYC filmmakers Fun City Cinema gives readers an in-depth look at how the rise, fall, and resurrection of New York City was captured and chronicled in ten iconic Gotham films across ten decades: The Jazz Singer (1927), King Kong (1933), The Naked City (1948), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Taxi Driver (1976), Wall Street (1987), Kids (1995), 25th Hour (2002), and Frances Ha (2012). A visual history of a great American city in flux, Fun City Cinema reveals how these classic films and legendary filmmakers took their inspiration from New York City’s grittiness and splendor, creating what we can now view as “accidental documentaries” of the city’s modes and moods. In addition to the extensively researched and reported text, the book includes both historical photographs and production materials, as well as still-frames, behind-the-scenes photos, posters, and original interviews with Noah Baumbach, Larry Clark, Greta Gerwig, Walter Hill, Jerry Schatzberg, Martin Scorsese, Susan Seidelman, Oliver Stone, and Jennifer Westfeldt. Extensive "Now Playing" sidebars spotlight a handful of each decade’s additional films of note.

Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813538167

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Cinema and Modernity by Murray Pomerance Pdf

Brings together several essays by seventeen scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. This volume shows us the significant ways that film has both grown in the context of the modern world and played a central role in reflecting and shaping our interactions with it.